On taxpayer-subsidized NPR's All Things Considered on Saturday, host Laura Sullivan did a lengthy piece about the messaging of Obamacare. Despite running for eleven minutes, no one in the piece viewed Obamacare negatively.

Sullivan started out lamenting that the public was "confused" about Obamacare: "just 37 percent of people say they like the law." She then argued that people actually do like Obamacare, since they are in favor of certain provisions. Sullivan brought in health policy correspondent Julie Rovner to explain why the public was "confused": because "there has been a very commanding misinformation and disinformation campaign."

After Rovner described several of Obamacare's provisions, Sullivan described it as "good stuff" and "great." Rovner agreed: "absolutely."

Rovner characterized Obamacare as something "to improve the care patients get" and "to make care more efficient." Rovner then assured listeners that Obamacare was a "step towards solving our national health care problem."

Sullivan declared that states opting out of creating their own health care exchanges did so "mostly on ideological grounds." To further tilt a one-sided piece where Sullivan and Rovner were offering positive assessments of Obamacare, Sullivan then put on Texas-based Ron Cookston, director of a "health care advocacy group" called Gateway to Care. He expressed disappointment that the state of Texas is not promoting Obamacare. Sullivan insisted that as a result of Rick Perry's choice to not expand Medicaid, more than a million poor Texans would go without health insurance.

We’ll see how much they love it when they get the bill. Imagine being told that you have to pay a bill every year where the cost rises and there’s nothing you can do to stop it or they seize your bank accounts. Forgot, we no longer have to imagine...

Sullivan started out lamenting that the public was "confused" about Obamacare: "just 37 percent of people say they like the law." She then argued that people actually do like Obamacare, since they are in favor of certain provisions.

14,000 pages and more every day and people are confused.

100,000+ "Navigators" will be required just to get people enrolled, hell, even the Navigators will be confused, but they will get you enrolled to vote demonRAT.

The AMA, not exactly a right wing organization, predicts that by 2020 (just seven short years) there will be a 45,000 doctor shortage.

My long time friend and seven of his partner-doctors just recently closed their private business and decided that obamacare was too onerous and it wasn't worth it to continue.

He said that they had a plan to bring in younger doctors and transition the business to them but couldn't find enough of the younger doctors that wanted to come in.

Maybe their asking price was too high, but for what ever reason, there are now eight less doctors, it's a far cry from 45,000 but maybe it is part of a bigger picture.

They were all going to retire within the next 8-10 years but obamacare hastened their exit.

” theres nothing you can do to stop it or they seize your bank accounts.”

A friend has converted almost all of her 401k to rental property. It’s unlikely they’ll seize that as, although it was paid for by the 401k funds, it’s not really part of the 401k. As for the bank account, you can control what’s in that. I suspect safes will sell well from now on.

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